Neoliberal government and urban citizenship in Latin America. Study of modes of subjectivation through access to subsidized housing in Quito
Quentin, Aurélie
Neoliberal government and urban citizenship in Latin America. Study of modes of subjectivation through access to subsidized housing in Quito - 2020.
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This article aims to contribute to the debate that has been going on for some years in the social sciences on how neo-liberal governmentality affects subjectivities. It focuses on the links between access to property and the political production of urban spaces in Latin America, considering this process as one of the effects of this subjectivation. Through a study of the political rationality of the housing subsidy programme developed in Ecuador since 1998 and a survey carried out in Quito among a group of women who have benefited from it, it seeks to shed light on how this means of access to housing has a concrete effect on the transformation of subjectivities, leading to a weakening of the “general will” of individuals. It shows that this can be achieved through the objectification of the “beneficiaries”, individual responsibility, the standardization of the relationship to housing and the depoliticization of forms of social regulation.
Neoliberal government and urban citizenship in Latin America. Study of modes of subjectivation through access to subsidized housing in Quito - 2020.
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This article aims to contribute to the debate that has been going on for some years in the social sciences on how neo-liberal governmentality affects subjectivities. It focuses on the links between access to property and the political production of urban spaces in Latin America, considering this process as one of the effects of this subjectivation. Through a study of the political rationality of the housing subsidy programme developed in Ecuador since 1998 and a survey carried out in Quito among a group of women who have benefited from it, it seeks to shed light on how this means of access to housing has a concrete effect on the transformation of subjectivities, leading to a weakening of the “general will” of individuals. It shows that this can be achieved through the objectification of the “beneficiaries”, individual responsibility, the standardization of the relationship to housing and the depoliticization of forms of social regulation.
Réseaux sociaux